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Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Blog Blast for Peace

My human dad is an officer in the Canadian Forces. As such, he has participated in many different missions around the world, including serving during the first Gulf War, peacekeeping missions in Haiti, Bosnia, and Eritrea, and domestic operations such as the Winnipeg Floods in 1997. I am very proud of him and the work that he does, along with all the other members of the Canadian Forces, and all the other men and women who serve throughout the world.

Currently, Canada has a large number of men and women serving in Afghanistan. Although the news focuses on their engagements with the Taliban, they do a lot of good work for the local people, as they do wherever they are deployed. They build roads, bridges, docks, and sometimes schools and other buildings; they do demining operations, so it is safe for people to travel through roads and fields that previously held dangerous mines; they often provide medical care for the local people; they make and distribute toys for the local children; and they do many other wonderful, helpful things that you seldom read about in the newspapers or hear about on the news.

Even though I am very proud of my dad and all his does, I do wish that the conflicts throughout the world would end, and that all the men and women serving overseas could return to their families.

I pray daily for all the men and women who are deployed, and fervently hope that they come home safely to their families.

Let there be peace.

To learn more about the Peace Globes and the Blog Blast for Peace, visit Mimi.

63 comments

I love your peace globe. Thank you for your perspective on what is going on that we don't get to read about in the newspapers or see on the TV news. Peace and love to you and your Mom and especially to your Dad.

I don't understand why the humans need troops and wars and all that. We cats know so much better. When we don't want another cat in our territory we just make ourselves as big as possible. Meouwing deeply, hissing and if absolutely necessary we have a short and loud catfight. The bigger cat wins (always me) and the other just leaves. Imagine cat troupes! Your male human is very brave.

Thank you for the reminder of other things the men and women in the service do. If beans wood only lissen to each other and unnerstand dat we reely aren't that different then peace wood reign and all our service men and woman could come home.

You are right to be proud of your dad Dragonheart.We only hear about the headline news on the TV and in the newspapers. Thank you for telling us about all the good work that he and so many others are doing that we would not normally hear about. Peace to you and your family.

Great statement. Just because we hope for peace, doesn't mean we don't support our men and women in green, we totally do. Your daddy is a very brave man. We also understand that Canadian, British, American, French etc., our men and women in green do more than "fight," they build, educate and protect.